Glasgow’s Jonny Gray was named ‘Young Player of the Year’ at the RaboDirect PRO12 Awards evening in the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh.

Jonny Gray picked up the award after not only breaking into and starting in the Glasgow side, but also into the Scottish national team.

He beat Leinster centre Noel Reid to the title and follows in the footsteps of Tim Visser (Edinburgh Rugby), Toby Faletau (Newport Gwent Dragons), Stuart Hogg (Glasgow Warriors) and Luke Marshall (Ulster Rugby) as the RaboDirect PRO12 ‘Young Player of the Year’.

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Dan Biggar (Ospreys) had already been named in the RaboDirect PRO12 Dream Team for the season last week and scooped the ‘Players’ Player of the Year’ award for his outstanding contribution to the Ospreys season.

Voted for by the 12 RaboDirect PRO12 Captains and Ambassadors, the Ospreys out half beat Glasgow Warriors’ Nikola Matawalu and Ulster’s Ruan Pienaar to the title in an incredibly tight vote. He follows in the footsteps of Tommy Bowe (Ospreys), Ruan Piennar (Ulster Rugby), Tim Visser (Edinburgh Rugby) and Nick Williams (Ulster Rugby) in picking up the prestigious award.

Glasgow’s Tommy Seymour took the Try of the Season award for his score against Ospreys

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It was a good night for Connacht and Ulster, as they share a £10,000 cheque to put towards youth development after jointly claiming the ‘SpecSavers Fair Play Award’ for having the fewest yellow and red cards and citings over the 22 games.

Rob Penney (Munster) won the ‘Coach of the Year’ award after steering Munster into the Play-Offs again. His side put together a record number of wins during the campaign and finished in 3rd place overall to secure an away tie to face Glasgow Warriors at Scotstoun next Friday.

Leinster legends Leo Cullen and Brian O’Driscoll both received (in absentia) the ‘Chairman’s Award’ in recognition of their outstanding service to their province, their country, the tournament as a whole and the game of rugby union.

Connacht took over from Scarlets as winners of the ‘Rhino Collision Kings’ title after a panel of experts assessed their efficiency at the breakdown and tackling,

Munster No. 10 JJ Hanrahan scooped the Rhino Golden Boot Award with 87.30% (55 kicks out of 63) with Cardiff Blues outhalf Gareth Davies coming a close second with 86.96%.

RaboDirect PRO12 Dream Team 2013 / 2014

15 – Liam Williams (Scarlets), 14 – Jeff Hassler (Ospreys), 13 – Casey Laulala (Munster), 12 – Alex Dunbar (Glasgow Warriors), 11 – Andrew Trimble (Ulster), 10 – Dan Biggar (Ospreys), 9 – Gareth Davies (Scarlets), 1 – Dave Kilcoyne (Munster), 2 – Sean Cronin (Leinster), 3 – Samson Lee (Scarlets), 4 – Johann Muller (Ulster) CAPTAIN, 5 – Alun-Wyn Jones (Ospreys), 6 – Rhys Ruddock (Leinster), 7 – Jordi Murphy (Leinster), 8 – Robin Copeland (Cardiff Blues).